Housing and Homelessness

JOURNAL – HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS COMMITTEE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2025 - 2:30 PM JOHN FERRARO COUNCIL CHAMBER ROOM 340, CITY HALL 200 NORTH SPRING STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 MEMBERS: COUNCILMEMBER NITHYA RAMAN, CHAIR COUNCILMEMBER YSABEL JURADO COUNCILMEMBER BOB BLUMENFIELD (Luigi Verano - Legislative Assistant - (213) 978-1082 or Clerk.HousingandHomelessness@lacity.org) Submit written comment at LACouncilComment.com The audio for Committee meetings is broadcast live on the internet at https://clerk.lacity.gov/calendar. The live audio can also be accessed at: (213) 621-CITY (Metro), (818) 904-9450 (Valley), (310) 471-CITY (Westside) and (310) 547- CITY (San Pedro Area). If the live audio is unavailable via one of these channels, members of the public are encouraged to use one of the other channels. The Committee will take public comment from members of the public in-person only; there will be no public comment by teleconference. Additional information regarding Committee procedures provided at the end of this agenda. Spanish language interpretation is available at all Council and Committee meetings. Interpretation services in additional languages are available upon request, at no cost. Please submit your request to clerk.interpretation@lacity.org as soon as possible to allow time for scheduling. You will receive a confirmation reply if an interpreter is available. MULTIPLE AGENDA ITEM COMMENT GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT ITEM(S) (1) 23-1022-S19  CD 5 Statutory Exemption, City Administrative Officer report and Bureau of Engineering report relative to the Alliance Settlement Agreement Program Fifth Funding Report; and funding allocation, lease and continued use for a period of up to five years for the interim housing/low barrier navigation center facility located at 7253 Melrose Avenue, for those experiencing homelessness; and determination that the projects are statutorily exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act under Public Resources Code Section 21080.27.5, applicable to low barrier navigation centers and Government Code Section 8698.4(a)(4), governing homeless shelter projects under a shelter crisis declaration, and related matters. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED City Administrative Officer report dated August 1, 2025; APPROVED Bureau of Engineering report dated July 29, 2025 – (3) Yes (2) 23-0652-S10 City Administrative Officer report relative to the Homelessness Emergency Declaration Ninth Quarterly Report - May through June 2025. Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted NOTED AND FILED Prop HHH Administartive Oversight Committee report dated August 1, 2025 – (3) Yes (3) 25-0815 City Administrative Officer report relative to the County of Los Angeles Emergency Centralized Response Center. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes  Community Impact Statement: None submitted NOTED AND FILED City Administrative Officer report dated July 24, 2025 – (3) Yes (4) 23-0600-S62 Economic and Workforce Development Department report and Adopted Budget Recommendation relative to a multi-year work plan to scale up employment programs to transition individuals out of homelessness. (Economic, Community Development and Jobs Committee noted and filed the above mentioned items on November 22, 2024) (Scheduled pursuant to Council action of December 13, 2024) Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted CONCURRED with Economic, Community Development and Jobs Committee action of November 22, 2024 - (3) Yes (5) 17-0090-S23 CD 15 Proposition HHH (Prop HHH) Administrative Oversight Committee report relative to decommitting funding for the Hope on 6th Project located at 576 West 6th Street in Council District 15 from the Prop HHH Fiscal Year 2020-21 Project Expenditure Plan and increasing the Prop HHH uncommitted balance. Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Prop HHH Administrative Oversight Committee report dated July 31, 2025 – (3) Yes (6) 17-0090-S32 Proposition HHH (Prop HHH) Administrative Oversight Committee report relative to the First and Second Quarterly Reports for Prop HHH Fiscal Year 2024-25, (July 1, 2024 – December 31, 2024).  Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Prop HHH Administrative Oversight Committee report dated July 30, 2025 – (3) Yes (7) 17-0090-S31 Proposition HHH (Prop HHH) Administrative Oversight Committee report relative to the Third Quarterly Report for Prop HHH Fiscal Year 2024-25, (January 1, 2025 – March 31, 2025). Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted NOTED AND FILED Prop HHH Administartive Oversight Committee report dated July 31, 2025 – (3) Yes (8) 20-1524-S9 CONTINUED FROM AUGUST 6, 2025 Motion (Raman – Yaroslavsky) relative to identifying funding for a cash flow loan in the amount of $9,620,151 for quarter two funding requested by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. (This item is referred to the Housing and Homelessness and the Budget and Finance Committees) Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Motion (Raman – Yaroslavsky) AS AMENDED – (3) Yes (9) 25-0883 CD 7 Motion (Rodriguez – Blumenfield) relative to a transfer of funds from the Foreclosure Relocation Program fund to the Tenant Relocation Assistance Program fund to pay the relocation benefits and to prevent the tenants previously occupying the property located at 8530 West La Tuna Canyon Road in Council District Seven from becoming homeless, due to the unsafe and uninhabitable conditions at the property.  Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Motion (Rodriguez – Blumenfield) – (3) Yes SUPPORTING MATERIALS Materials relating to items on the agenda are available on the Office of the City Clerk's Council File Management System found at https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect by entering the Council File number (e.g., 00-0000) associated with the agenda item. 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Telecommunications Relay Service is a telephone service that allows persons with hearing or speech disabilities to place and receive telephone calls. TRS is available in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. territories for local and/or long distance calls. TRS providers - generally telephone companies - are compensated for the costs of providing TRS from either a state or a federal fund. There is no cost to the TRS user. What forms of TRS are available? There are several forms of TRS, depending on the particular needs of the user and the equipment available: TRS includes: Text to Voice TIY-Based TRS; Speech-to-Speech Relay Service; Shared Non-English Language Relay Service; Captioned Telephone Relay Service; Internet Protocol Relay Service; and Video Relay Service. Please visit this site for detail descriptions, https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs. Don't hang up! 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